Death of Sardanapalus 1827 by Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863 France French

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Sardanapalus was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias of Cnidus, the last king of Babylon. Ctesias' Persica is lost, but we know of its contents by later compilations and from the work of Diodorus. Sardanapalus has often been identified with the Assyrian king Aššurbanipal, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863) was the most important of the French Romantic painters. Delacroix' use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. The dead Sardonian Women Delacroix

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